Amazon
Senior Software Engineer, Security Services and Observability, Amazon Web Services
$168K–$227K
Seattle, WA +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Irvine, CA
Herndon, VA - Experience
- 7+ years in software development, programming, and system design or architecture; no alternatives stated.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred).
About the job
Build and deliver production-grade AI systems for enterprise customers, working with AWS service teams on security, search, observability, and governance solutions.
What you'll do
- Embed with customers to understand their needs and design and ship AI-powered products.
- Own complex cross-team engineering projects, set technical direction, and lead system design.
- Build reusable accelerators and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience and 7+ years programming in at least one language.
- 7+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team; and influencing a team or organization.
- Experience delivering complex software systems to customers and communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Experience with machine learning or LLMs, AI products at scale, AWS, customer-facing work, or agentic and specification-driven development.
Pay
USD 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
large language models, agent frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation, foundation models, AWS, APIs
AI focus
Build multi-agent orchestration, retrieval pipelines, workflow automation, and decision intelligence; integrate models, customer data, APIs, and applications into production AI experiences, optimizing latency, reliability, observability, cost, and security.
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